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Shared emphasis america.gov Policy & governance · 2 attributable reactions Multiple readings The AI Resist List Policy & governance · 2 attributable reactions Multiple readings One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’ Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions
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New AI field signal Signal 5h ago

america.gov

18 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

18 experts 5 communities 1 sources clustered
Mark Riedl Chris Brockett Sasha Costanza-Chock Karl Bode Eileen Clancy 🧿 Ryan Broderick Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) Julian Sanchez +10
Primary source america.gov ↗
Established AI field signal Resource 13d ago
⚡ 489 h early
AI resist list published

The AI Resist List

15 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

15 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Emily M. Bender Alex Hanna Timnit Gebru Mar Hicks Olivia Guest Karen Hao Rachel Coldicutt Sasha Costanza-Chock +7
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Policy & governance

1 expert

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“We are so excited about this resource created with @weandai.bsky.social and the Refugee Law Lab. Check it out and submit a resource you're excited about via airesistlist.org#join”

Building & implementation

1 expert

How teams are shipping and applying it.

“AI resist list just launched! AIresistlist.org”

Primary source airesistlist.org ↗
Established AI field signal Resource 11d ago
⚡ 8 h early
AI kill chain anatomy interactive resource

Interactive: Anatomy Of An AI Kill Chain

12 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

12 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Timnit Gebru Justin Hendrix Gaia Marcus Hypervisible AI Now Institute Marielza Sasha Costanza-Chock Eileen Clancy 🧿 +4

“I was thinking about things like @HeidyKhlaaf's work https://t.co/0Nnpm89kKl”

“Excellent work from the @ainowinstitute.bsky.social and @airwars.bsky.social. "To demystify military AI, we construct an abstract kill chain that reflects an AI targeting cycle."”

Primary source ai-killchain.airwars.org ↗
Established AI field signal Analysis 15d ago
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One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’

8 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

8 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Alex Hanna Timnit Gebru Sasha Costanza-Chock Katie Drummond The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute Nathalie Maréchal, PhD Stefanie Hane mRr3b00t
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Concern & critique

1 expert

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“@timnitgebru.blacksky.app explains how doomers and their "machine-god narrative" are feeding the hype machine and distracting us from the real harms of AI: www.wired.com/story/one-of...”

Questions & unknowns

1 expert

What remains unresolved or contested.

“"When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who is the person who built this bridge to be so flimsy?"”

Primary source wired.com ↗
Established AI field signal Analysis 12d ago
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Palantir NHS critique analysis

Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS

6 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

6 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
joao Zeerak Talat زیرک طلعت (they/them) Hypervisible Sasha Costanza-Chock Mél Hogan / The Data Fix Roland Meyer

“Palantir sells a myth: «For all Thiel and Karp’s boasts of omniscience, AI-fuelled warfare and civilisational conflict, Palantir is fundamentally a software business … What its leadership has grasped is that in an age of revanchist nationalism, there is an …”

Primary source lrb.co.uk ↗
Established AI field signal Signal 8d ago

Flock cameras ai privacy

4 directory members surfaced this signal.

4 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered
Justin Hendrix Sasha Costanza-Chock Rosamunde Van Brakel Nathalie Maréchal, PhD

“"For years, the prevailing narrative has been that privacy is dead and pervasive surveillance is just the cost of admission for existing in the digital age. The Flock backlash shows that people aren’t apathetic about their privacy."”

““The emperor is a fan of Flock,” a man dressed as Darth Vader told a San Diego City Council meeting last month.... “We must continue utilizing Flock technologies so that we can follow and surveil the rebel scum.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/o...”

Primary source nytimes.com ↗
Established AI field signal Signal 12d ago
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Inside campaign convince washington that ai could end human life

3 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

3 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Sasha Costanza-Chock Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)

“Maddening. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...”

“This is bad, incomplete reporting that Googling #TESCREAL would fix: These doomer "movements" & funders have roots in eugenics. That's the story. Inside the campaign to convince Washington that AI could end human life www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...”

Primary source washingtonpost.com ↗
Established Models & releases Release 9d ago
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Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6 model release

MiMo-V2.6 | Xiaomi

3 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

3 experts 3 communities 2 sources clustered
Tim Kellogg Sung Kim Sasha Costanza-Chock

“Xiaomi Mimo-v2.6 Pro & Flash Nails the agent benchmarks alongside Sol & Fable, but from a relatively unknown lab. 524B / 159B respectively Open weights. Image, Video & Audio mimo.xiaomi.com/mimo-v2-6”

2 experts discussed this · 8 posts
Sung Kim: mimo.xiaomi.com/mimo-v2-6
Sung Kim: Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6 — Pro & Flash 🔹 Two omnimodal models, advancing through scaled reinforcement learning 🔹 Stronger coding, computer use, 3D reasoning and creative capabilities 🔹 Open model weights, …
Gus: Were these models that the training evals were open whine training?
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Primary source mimo.xiaomi.com ↗ techmeme.com ↗
Established AI field signal Signal 12d ago

Who Audits the Auditors? - Algorithmic Justice League

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Sasha Costanza-Chock Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)

“To understand how AI auditing actually works, & why we need 3rd party (fully independent) auditors, not just 2nd party (contractors) or 1st party (internal teams), please read the 2022 paper Who Audits the Auditors? I coauthored w/ @rajiinio.bsky.social & @…”

Primary source ajl.org ↗
Debates gaining attention

What experts are discussing without an anchoring article

3 experts · 6 posts · 11d ago
Abeba Birhane Iris van Rooij Sasha Costanza-Chock
Abeba Birhane: “our ai broke out and hacked some organisations” = "we failed to set up appropriate safeguards, failed to continuously monitor our experiments, and ignored a basic principle of reinforcement learni…
Iris van Rooij: “our ai broke out and hacked some organisations” = "we failed to set up appropriate safeguards, failed to continuously monitor our experiments, and ignored a basic principle of reinforcement learni…
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